Direct observation of the double Schottky barrier in niobium-doped barium titanate by the charge-collection current method

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1961-1963

  Kataoka, Noriyasu ^a   Hayashi, Katsuro ^a   Yamamoto, Takahisa ^a,c   Sugawara, Yoshihiro ^b   Ikuhara, Yuichi ^a,c   Sakuma, Taketo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN FINE CERAMICS CENTER   (Japan)

^c AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM TITANATE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; NIOBIUM;

CHARGE COLLECTION CURRENT METHOD; DOUBLE SCHOTTKY BARRIER (DSB); POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT OF RESISTIVITY (PTCR);

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0032118604     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1998.tb02576.x     Document Type: Article

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